- From: Travis Leithead <travil@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:33:18 +0000
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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>Ian Hickson wrote: >>On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> >> Taking the liberty of forwarding this snippet along, since it's particularly >> pertinent to the HTML5 spec. In view of the IE team's position here, I would >> like to reiterate my proposal that the () syntax be removed for >> HTMLCollections and such. >> >> -Boris >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Additional notes from last Thursday's meeting >> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:46:13 -0700 >> From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au<mailto:cam@mcc.id.au?Subject=Re%3A%20Fwd%3A%20Additional%20notes%20from%20last%20Thursday's%20meeting&In-Reply-To=%253CPine.LNX.4.62.0910052128580.21884%40hixie.dreamhostps.com%253E&References=%253CPine.LNX.4.62.0910052128580.21884%40hixie.dreamhostps.com%253E>> >> To: public-script-coord@w3.org<mailto:public-script-coord@w3.org?Subject=Re%3A%20Fwd%3A%20Additional%20notes%20from%20last%20Thursday's%20meeting&In-Reply-To=%253CPine.LNX.4.62.0910052128580.21884%40hixie.dreamhostps.com%253E&References=%253CPine.LNX.4.62.0910052128580.21884%40hixie.dreamhostps.com%253E> >> ... >> * Nobody liked 'caller' operations, and some wanted to remove it from >> from normative requirements altogether. The IE team would like to >> remove support for callable collection objects at some point in the >> future, and the worry is that codifying this as required behaviour >> would make that much harder. >> >> One suggestion was to mention this in a non-normative section like >> ES5's Appendix B. > > Could the IE team clarify if they are willing to remove this support from > all rendering modes or if the above merely refers to an IE9 or later mode? To be clear, we have a strong commitment to preserving compatibility with legacy web pages, even webpages written using this undesirable behavior (caller-syntax). As such we will be keeping the caller behavior in our "classic" rendering modes until such a time as we can prove with good data that removing support for it will have inconsequential side-effects on compatibility. The above sentiment mentioned regarding removing support was in our IE9 or later rendering mode.
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